Jack Goody Forfatter
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Death and the Ancestors: A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This volume is a study of mortuary customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa, in research for this project the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and attended 25 burial services.
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Food and Love: A Cultural History of East and West (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Surveys phenomena as diverse as the uniqueness of the European family, the development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional... Læs mere
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Changing Social Structure in Ghana: Essays in the Comparative Sociology of a new State and an old Tradition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana.
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The Social Organisation of the Lo Wiili (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Originally published in 1967 (second edition) presents an account of the life and social organisation of the Lo Wiili of the Haute Volta and Ghana.
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Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Originally published in 1971 this book argues that certain aspects of traditional African social systems have been misunderstood because of a failure to... Læs mere
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Changing Social Structure in Ghana: Essays in the Comparative Sociology of a new State and an old Tradition (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana.
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Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Originally published in 1971 this book argues that certain aspects of traditional African social systems have been misunderstood because of a failure to... Læs mere
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The Social Organisation of the Lo Wiili (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Originally published in 1967 (second edition) presents an account of the life and social organisation of the Lo Wiili of the Haute Volta and Ghana.
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Succession to High Office (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies. Jack Goody's introduction spells out the main ways in... Læs mere
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Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200–1800 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for... Læs mere
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Literacy in Traditional Societies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The importance of writing as a means of communication in a society formerly without it, or where writing has been confined to particular groups, is enormous. It... Læs mere
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Comparative Studies in Kinship (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the essays in this book show the comparative ideal in practice, which combines elements from both sociology and anthropology.
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